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Elevated   /ˈɛləvˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Elevate  v. t.  (past & past part. elevated; pres. part. elevating)  
1.
To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.
2.
To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.
3.
To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.
4.
To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.
5.
To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.
6.
To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. (Colloq. & Sportive) "The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo."
7.
To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. (A Latin meaning) (Obs.)
To elevate a piece (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower the breech.
Synonyms: To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist; heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate.


adjective
Elevated  adj.  Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.
Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.





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"Elevated" Quotes from Famous Books



... half-humorous recollections. The a-b abs of little voices long since hushed in the mould, or ringing now in the pulpit, at the bar, or in the Senate-chamber, come back to the ear of memory. You remember the high stool on which culprits used to be elevated with the tall paper fool's-cap on their heads, blushing to the ears; and you think with wonder how you have seen them since as men climbing the world's penance-stools of ambition without a blush, and gladly giving everything for life's caps and bells. And you ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... captain parried it with a powerful movement, and, before L—— could recover his position, made a thrust in return, his whole body falling forward as he did so, exactly like a picture at the Academie des Armes—'the hand elevated, the leg stretched out'—and his sword went through his antagonist, for nearly half its length, just under the shoulder. The captain made an almost imperceptible turn with his hand, and in an instant was again ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 - Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 • Various
... could be carried, "it appeared" said Lee, "that its possession would give facilities for assailing and carrying the more elevated ground and ...
— Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee • John Esten Cooke
... aspirations over-balance their material impulses. As usual he has not only done his work this half entirely to my satisfaction, but has more than repaid any services I can render him by the precious companionship of a fresh and elevated spirit. ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... made of the commonest of all our native plants on the Trail—sagebrush. Botanically, it is, Artemisia tridentata. The new Standard Dictionary defines sagebrush as "any one of the various shrubby species of Artemisia, of the aster family, growing on the elevated plains of the Western United States, especially Artemisia tridentata, very abundant from Montana to Colorado and westward." The leaf ends in three points; hence the adjective ...
— Trail Tales • James David Gillilan


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